And when the system fails, it is my responsibility." President Obama campaigned on a promise of "change we can believe in."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

There's in those images, I think, a kind of utopian promise that the familiar, ordinary pleasures of rural life can be recaptured in a new society of plenty.

在这些图片中，我认为有一种乌托邦的希望,对乡村生活熟悉而平凡的快乐的希望,能在一个自足的新社会里重新得到快乐的希望。

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It consists of a promise to pay, usually denominated in currency, and there are both long-term and short-term debt instruments.

是一种付款承诺,通常是货币支付形式,有长期债券,以及短期债券

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Those challenges included an economic downturn, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a promise to reform the health care system.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

What Milton is primarily interested in in his Nativity Ode is the redemption, the promise of what Christ's Nativity will do at some future point for mankind.

弥尔顿在基督诞生颂歌里最感兴趣的是,救赎，基督诞生后在将来,在将来能为人类做些什么。

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He said new Security Council sanctions approved in June make clear that international law is not an empty promise.

VOA: special.2010.09.25

The points of view, again, are those of the sacred and profane, the soul and the body, the promise of a heavenly mansion, and the reality of a life lived in a foul sty.

这里表达的观点又是关于,神圣与世俗，灵魂与身体，关于住进天国的大厦的许诺，和生活在臭猪圈的现实。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The promise came Friday on the third and final day of the Group of Eight summit meeting in L'Aquila,Italy.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

But TEFRA was coupled with a promise by Tip O'Neil and Bob Dole that for every dollar in tax increases government spending would be cut by 3 dollars.

但前提是，欧尼尔和鲍勃·杜尔必须承诺,每增税1美元,政府财政支出须减少3美元。

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The F.A.O.says that by signing the treaty, governments promise to take steps to guard their ports against ships involved in such fishing.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

According to a time-honored tradition in finance, it says that it's a promise to pay $1, but it's not worth $1 today.

由于资金有时间价值,他说他承诺支付一美元,但在此时此刻它并不值一美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They promise to take action, if needed, "to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole."

VOA: special.2010.02.12

In Genesis 15,God's promise to Abraham is formalized in a ritual ceremony.

创世纪》15中上帝对亚伯拉罕的应许是通过仪式起效的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

President Obama made a campaign promise to begin efforts for immigration reform in his first year in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

We're going to look at one example of an episode in which the promise is affirmed--or confirmed, reaffirmed--and an example of an episode in which the promise is supremely threatened.

我们来看一个应许被声明的例子,-或者是被确认，被重申--和一个应许,遭受极度威胁的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In return for this promise, they were released on parole and sent home to their families.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Suppose you are a naive investor and you say, okay I'm going to invest in companies' paper, which is their promise to pay --their IOU.

假如你是一个菜鸟投资者,想投资于这些公司的债券,债券就是他们的偿还凭证或者说欠条

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A resolution is a promise to change or do something different in the coming year.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In answer to the promise of the Bishop's heavenly mansion in another life, she claims another sort of house, what she calls love's mansion which is noble itself and which is to be lived here on earth.

在回答主教许诺的在另一个世界,生活在天国的大厦时,她提出另一种房子，称之为爱之屋,那房子自身是高贵的,是在现世存在也可居住的。

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He spoke about the importance and the promise of America's new position in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Does he fully intend to obey this command, to annul the covenantal promise with his own hand? Or does he trust in God to intervene? Or is this a paradox of faith? Does Abraham intend faithfully to obey, all the while trusting faithfully that God's promise will nevertheless be fulfilled?

他是否完全打算遵守这个命令，亲手废止,契约的应许？或者，他信任上帝的干涉吗？又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？亚伯拉罕打算忠诚地服从，同时,忠实地相信即使如此上帝的应许也会实现吗？

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"A lot of women are coming in victims of agents that go out to rural areas and promise them wonderful jobs,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Instead,as May writes in her new book, "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"While President Obama has no plan for what to do with these killers, he has pledged to close the terrorist detention facility in January, to fulfill a campaign promise.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

We are encouraging and appealing to the president to make real on his promise which he made during his campaign in 2006 that if he became president he was going to repeal this law,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The promise of the concessional loans further China's investment in the continent, aimed at improving such infrastructure as roads and energy production as well as developing agriculture and undertaking health and education initiatives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The biggest challenge the Obama Administration faces in keeping that promise is finding a way to involve all Islamist movements in the process, according to Reza Aslan, a University of California associate professor of religion.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

So,I guess it hits the right tone in that it is a promise that US policy in the Middle East and in the peace process, President Obama will try to do his best in the future,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

That is a promise that I make to you,". The president did not specifically mention Afghanistan in his talk to the troops, but he is expected to send thousands more service members to fight there.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

"I was initially surprised by the news, because I usually expect older people, with longer experience in the peace process, but I took President Obama's winning of the prize as a promise for the future, as much as it is for his approach in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09